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Monday, September 15, 2014

Sewing on skirts

A few weeks ago I made four bodies for my youngest in one batch. I used a
pattern I had used before just two sizes larger. I felt confident
enough to not first make one, I should have known better...
While sewing I was surprised that the back of the body piece was not longer than the
front. This had been the case with two sized smaller but I decided that
the bigger size asked for a different snit. After finishing the neck
line I felt the back was relatively low, but I assumed that I had not
stretched my binding enough while sewing it on. It turned out that the
body pattern I used had two different fronts and I had confused the back
piece with the second front!

Okay after breathing in very deeply a few
times I put one of the bodies on an existing one and saw that the total
length should at least be enough for now. I was planning on making
bodies that would be good for a few months but at least they would fit
now. I started putting on snaps and was confronted with a next problem.

I made the bias extra thick because I felt that the snaps needed a bit
more fabric between them. But I had become over enthusiastic apparently
because the snaps did not wanted to stay on. After putting on around 15
snaps I was managed to make 8 snaps stick. When actually putting on a
body I found out that the fabric I used for two was not as stretchy as I
was used to, making the body hard to put on. You can probably imagine
how I felt about the body adventure (and I did not even mention the fact that even later it turned out that the back of one of the bodies had a weave mistake which created two small holes)...

I managed to not throw them all
out (although the 8 snaps that staid on came off again). After sharing
my disaster project with my niece she suggested to just cut them to
shirts. I light bulb went on in my head and I remembered something I
pinned a while back.

The pin was about putting a skirt on a too small
body. This is what I did to two of them that were made with stretchy
(scrap) fabrics. My three year old now loves her new dresses, although
they are a bit tight. I should put them in a box for a year for my
youngest but I have not managed to do this because my three year old
fishes them out of the clean laundry pile all the time while sorting it.
In the pictures she wanted to show of her new "phone" she had just got
and did not wanted to part from. It is still in her hand in the second
picture but it is just outside the image.

I used my newly acquired trick
of putting on a skirt to safe a friends daughters shirt. The friend
wanted to donate the shirt (because it had become to shirt) to my
daughter and mentioned her daughter loved the shirt. I decided to try
the trick again and combined it with a skirt that was also on the "put
away"pile.

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I am a Dutch mother of four (three girls and one boy) and an academic. I love to create and use this blog to share my creations with the world. I knit, crochet, sew, bake etc. and many of those skills I learned from bloggers around the globe. I hope you like reading about my creative adventures and that they may inspire you.